ThemeGoods Altair Plugin up to 5.2.4 on WordPress User functions.php authorization

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A vulnerability described as critical has been identified in ThemeGoods Altair Plugin up to 5.2.4 on WordPress. This affects an unknown part of the file functions.php of the component User Handler. The manipulation results in authorization. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-12922. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in ThemeGoods Altair Plugin up to 5.2.4 on WordPress. Affected is an unknown code block of the file functions.php of the component User Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Altair theme for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data that can lead to privilege escalation due to a missing capability check within functions.php in all versions up to, and including, 5.2.4. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update arbitrary options on the WordPress site. This can be leveraged to update the default role for registration to administrator and enable user registration for attackers to gain administrative user access to a vulnerable site.

The weakness was published by Tonn. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-12922 since 12/25/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 03/19/2025).

By approaching the search of inurl:functions.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• ThemeGoods

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• Altair Plugin

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• 5.2.0
• 5.2.1
• 5.2.2
• 5.2.3
• 5.2.4

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